Naomi White is an feminist, artist, and educator and focuses on creating a message and addresses issues about political, gender and environmental matters. This photography component of her work explores the way plastic responds to touch. In extension to this, Nicki explored it weight, its surface and how every bag reacts and contracts differently.

I would like to replicate some of these images in the studio for an Anthropocene and Naomi White inspired photoshoot, I think these photos are very moving and display how plastics float in the sea, I also really like the blank background and how it contrasts and brings out the bright colours of the plastic bags. I think these photos may also be misconceived, this is because the object looks similar to a flower or something of beauty, whereas in real life the object is pollutive, dangerous and a killer. This factor gives these photos an edge and explores the beauty in something negative.

I think these photos are similar to photos of singular flowers such as roses, which also symbolize beauty. I find this particularly interesting because Naomi White is taking something basic and insignificant, and turning it into something beautiful.

I hope to replicate this photography style in the photography studio soon. For this I will need:

• Multiple plastic bags of different colours, weights and densities.
• A white background
• Blue tack or something sticky
• A camera

Plastic Bag Photoshoot.

To take these photos, I first set up a black piece of card, a black background and had a flash- head facing a stand, where I attached my plastic bags and then photographed it using a canon camera.

My Camera Settings.

This is my contact sheet of all the photos I have taken.

This is my favourite image I took as I think it looks very high quality image and I like the blue colour against the black background. I also removed all dust particles and small objects from the background which makes it looks like the bag is floating in the air which Is the idea is was aiming for.

For this photoshoot, I went into the studio and photographed various plastic bags that I found on the beach. These bags ranged from large, to small and old, to new. They also came in a range of colours. I used a camera, a light, and a stand to hold up my bags and photograph them with a black background to have solo shots of each one individually. I think this photoshoot went well, however to improve I would like to have a white background to match my photographer inspiration ‘Naomi White‘.

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